Assault on the Senses is a novel written by Michael P. Ferrari. The book is a dark college comedy that follows Kalvin Gray (known to his friends as "Kal"), a self-deprecating college student going semi-crazy trying to make sense of his hard-drinking, self-loathing college career.
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